Recycling plant to be set up in Brest in 2010-2011
17.11.2008 20:48
A waste recycling plant employing German technologies will be established in Brest in 2010-2011. The relevant decree has been signed by President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on November 17, BelTA learnt from the presidential press service.
Under the decree, mechanical and biological facilities and the related infrastructure are to be set up in Brest in 2008-2011. The new facilities are to recycle 100,000 tonnes of solid domestic waste and 370,000 cubic meters of silt and sewage sludge a year using the technologies of LINDE-KCA-DRESDEN GmbH (Germany).
The sewage sludge treatment facilities will be put into operation in Q2, 2010; the ones to recycle solid domestic waste will be completed in Q2, 2011.
Brest municipal housing maintenance and utilities board will act as the project owner. It will also be in charge of preparing documents to be submitted to the European Union to apply for the grant to reconstruct the whole complex of waste treatment facilities of Brest. STRABAG Umweltanlagen GmbH (Germany) will be the prime contractor of the designing and construction of the waste recycling facilities.
In line with the business plan, the project cost is estimated at EUR 63.3 million (tax dues, VAT not included).
The decree relieved the goods imported in Belarus for the construction of the enterprise of tax dues and value added tax for the services provided on the territory of Belarus by foreign organizations.
The land plots allocated for the construction of the enterprise will be exempt from land tax till July 2011.
The designing and construction of the sewage sludge treatment facilities and the related infrastructure will be financed by the national budget, the funds for the designing and construction of the remaining facilities will be allocated from the national budget (50%) and the Brest oblast budget (50%).
Apart from that, a joint enterprise to manufacture technological equipment for the construction of similar plants in other regions of the country will be set up in Brest.
The decree is aimed at promoting the introduction of new, cutting-edge waste treatment technologies in Belarus.
